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    Passage in a recently-discovered 1860 review of Leaves of Grass which very cautiously encodes the sexual dangers of Whitman's Inner-Light theology.

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    Inner Light => Libertinism

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    Passage in a recently-discovered 1860 review of Leaves of Grass which very cautiously encodes the sexual dangers of Whitman's Inner-Light theology.

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    Passage in a recently-discovered 1860 review of Leaves of Grass which very cautiously encodes the sexual dangers of Whitman's Inner-Light theology.

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    Another very cautiously-encoded reference to Whitman's Quaker theology as a moral menace. Mitchell Santine Gould, curator, LeavesOfGrass.

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    ' Nothing is more notorious than the fact that when any individual claims to have some light superior to that revealed in the Bible, whether that light be the light of nature, simply, or the light of new and direct revelation or inspiration, then that individual almost invariably develops himself towards libertinism. Perhaps this fact is more notorious when we find men in masses, as in the various sects that spring up from time to time. [examples follow . . .]

    Leaves of GrassSmut in Them." The Springfield Daily Republican (June 16, 1860),4.

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